Bradysia nervosa (Meigen, 1818)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Bradysia nervosa (Meigen, 1818)

Synonyms.

= fucata (Meigen, 1818); = variabilis (Zetterstedt, 1838).

Literature.

Faunistics: Zetterstedt (1838): 827 [as Sciara variabilis ]; Walker (1848): 108 [as Sciara nervosa ]; Zetterstedt (1851): 3738 [as Sciara variabilis ]; Zetterstedt (1855): 4890 [as Sciara nervosa and Sciara variabilis ]; Boheman (1866): 575; Holmgren (1869): 8 [both as Sciara variabilis ]; Siebke (1877): 212 [as Sciara variabilis ] and 213 [as Sciara nervosa ]; Lengersdorf (1926b): 4 [as Sciara nervosa ] and 9 [as Sciara variabilis ]; Thor (1930): 4 [as Sciara variabilis ]; Soot-Ryen (1942): 78 [in part as Neosciara nervosa ; misidentification (only cited variabilis specimens)]; Coulson and Refseth (2004): 102; Coulson (2008): 160; Coulson (2013): 153 [all as Bradysia nervosa ]. Taxonomy: Tuomikoski (1960): 125; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 161 [both as Bradysia nervosa ].

Localities.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norwegia’; = ‘Norwegen’; = ‘Nord-Norwegen’) • Finnmark; Hammerfest, Hammerfest (= 'Hammerfest, Finmark’; = ‘Hammerfest’) • Karasjok, Karasjok at the river Karasjohka (= ‘Karasjok’) • Møre Og Romsdal/Oppland/ Trøndelag; Dovrefjell [Dovre Mountains] (= 'in alpe Dovre’; = ‘Dovre’) • Nordland; Narvik, Bjerkvik at the Ofotfjorden NE of Narvik (= 'in Nordlandiæ Norvegicæ, ad diversorium Björkvik juxla Ofodenfjorden’; = 'ad diversorium Bjørkvik prope Ofodenfjord Nordlandiae’; = 'ad Bjŏrkvik Nordlandiae Norvegicae’; = ‘Bjørkvik, Ofoten’) • Oslo; Oslo, Tøyen (= 'ad Christianiam in Tøien’; = 'in Tøien ad Christianiam’; = ‘Tøien ad Christianiam’; = ‘Tøyen, Oslo’) • Oslo, Tøyenhaven (= ‘Töienhaven’; = ‘Tøyenhaven’) • Trøndelag; Verdal, farm Nes between Verdal and Lysthaugen at the S site of Verdalselva (= 'ad Næs Værdaliæ’; = 'ad Näs Værdaliæ’; = 'Nes, Værdal’; = ‘Værdaliæ’) • Verdal, former poststation ‘Suulstuen’ SE of Vuku at the Jamtlandsvegen [road no. 72] (= 'ad diversorium Suul’; = 'ad Suul Værdaliæ’; = 'Suul Værdaliæ’; = 'Sul, Værdal’; = ‘Værdaliæ’).

• Svalbard; Spitsbergen, Bellsund at the W coast (= 'ad Bel Sund’) • Spitsbergen, Edgeøya at the Storfjorden,? Kvalpynten at the N side of the mouth of Tjuvfjorden (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Whales Point in Storfjorden’; = 'ad Whales Point in Storfjorden’; = 'Whales Point, Storfjord’) • Spitsbergen, Isfjorden, Dickson Land, Kapp Thordsen (= 'ad Cap Thordsen in Isfjorden’) • Spitsbergen, without further locality details (= 'Spetsbergen; = ‘Spitsbergen’).

Ecological note.

Habitats not specified. Phenology: Apr.-Sep.